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A boy was killed by a front loader at a construction site on the 8000 block of South Ellis Ave. on Tuesday morning. (Published Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009)

Updated at 8:04 PM CST on Tuesday, Aug 11, 2009

A 9-year-old boy killed in what a neighbor described as a "freak accident" at a South Side construction site is being remembered as a "good little boy" who loved soccer and Spider-Man.

Valente Torres was struck by the steel bucket of a Bobcat skid loader on Tuesday morning at the site of an excavation project on the 8000 block of South Ellis Avenue.

Boy Killed by Bobcat Front Loader

A boy was killed by a front loader at a construction site on the 8000 block of South Ellis Ave. on Tuesday morning. (Published Wednesday, Aug 12, 2009)

Police said Raul Torres, owner of Torres Construction, may have had the boy on his lap in the cab of the loader when it hit the curb, knocking the soon-to-be fourth grader out. Neighbors, however, said the boy was playing on the sidewalk when the bucket came down.